Former National Security Agency official Edward Snowden has said he wants to move to Switzerland, reports Reuters . He said this during a teleconference with the audience of the documentary "Citizen Four" in Switzerland. “I would love to go back to Switzerland, one of my favorite memories is with Geneva,” Snowden said. In his assessment, the country is "an excellent place in terms of politics" due to its historical neutrality.

The Moscow City Court dismissed the complaints of two people arrested after they were detained on a march in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov, reports . the Moskva news agency In particular, the Moscow City Court agreed with the decision of the Tver Court on the cases of activists of the national revolutionary party "Narodnaya Volya" Dmitry Zhigalov and Nikita Kashirin.

Political scientist Stanislav Shkel - about the reasons for the extreme unpopularity of the opposition rallies in the regions on the example of Bashkiria Photo: "New Gazeta" Political scientist Stanislav Shkel - about the reasons for the extreme unpopularity of the opposition rallies in the regions on the example of Bashkiria In the mourning procession of Boris Nemtsov’s memory, on March 1, less than 50 people took part in Ufa (see video).

Activist Asan Charukhov, who was detained today in the case of clashes in Crimea last February, was released after interrogation, reports on Facebook. Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars Nariman Dzhelyalov The head of the secretariat of the Mejlis, Dilyaver Akeev, told Dzhelyalov that the employees of the Investigative Committee had released the activist. At the same time, the deputy chairman of the Mejlis added that, most likely, there will be new interrogations.

On March 6, the opposition politician Alexei Navalny was released after 15 days of administrative arrest. He expressed his condolences in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, and also added that he did not intend to stop political activities.

In the city of Vatutino, Cherkasy region of Ukraine, Lenin Square was renamed to Nadezhda Savchenko Square, UNIAN reports. In addition, Lenin Street was renamed the city - hundreds of heavenly Heroes Street. According to an agency correspondent, the street and square were renamed at the initiative of the deputy of the Vatutinsky city council on March 5. The deputy’s proposal supported most of his colleagues.

The Crimean Field Mission for Human Rights , an organization of Ukrainian and Russian human rights activists operating in Crimea since March 5, 2014, reported the disappearance of the father of Maidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko, who was arrested on the peninsula, according to the organization’s Facebook page. “Relatives cannot contact him and express fear that he could be kidnapped to put pressure on Alexander Kostenko,” the mission said, citing activist lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov.

The European Union decided to stop the sanctions against a number of Ukrainian citizens close to the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. The corresponding decision was published in the official journal of the EU.

Switzerland extended the sanctions against Russia and expanded them, according to the website of the Federal Council of the country. In addition to the EU sanctions, Switzerland introduced restrictive measures in December last year, prohibiting trade with Crimea and Sevastopol. The Federal Council notes that it supports European sanctions to prevent circumventing them using the territory of Switzerland, which is not part of the EU.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of the fall of a block of ice on a woman with a child, according to the agency's website. The incident took place on the evening of March 5 in the east of Moscow. An ice block fell on a 26-year-old Muscovite and her two-year-old child from a height of the fifth floor. The victims received head injuries and were hospitalized. The child is in critical condition.

On the morning of March 6, after interrogation, Claude Gean, former head of the cabinet of the President of France (2007-2011), former Minister of the Interior (2011-2012), was taken into custody. According to L'Express, the investigators are looking for an answer to the question for what services in March 2008 500,000 euros came to Gean's account.

State Duma deputy and leader of the National Liberation Movement (NOD) Yevgeny Fedorov appealed to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and head of the Accounts Chamber Tatyana Golikova with a request to conduct a new audit of the Gogol Center theater, TASS .

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko will come out of her hunger strike with a balanced diet, her lawyer Mykola Polozov tweeted. He also said that Savchenko will refuse broths. Savchenko's statement, published by Polozov, says that she intends to end the hunger strike on juices diluted with water, as well as vegetable and fruit purees. Savchenko refused chicken broth on the recommendation of her defenders.

The prosecutor's office of the Kharkiv region opened a criminal case on the fact of the explosion of the car of the commander of the special police battalion "Slobozhanshchina" Andriy Yangolenko under the article "encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer," according to the agency 's website. According to preliminary data, according to the prosecutor's office, a magnetic mine exploded under the car. Andrei Yangolenko and his wife received moderate shrapnel wounds.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a 10 percent pay cut for all employees of the state apparatus from May 1 until the end of 2015. The cut salary will be paid not only to employees of the presidential administration and the Accounts Chamber, but also to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, and Putin himself.